Consulting firms have been confronted with greater competition for talented employees, as the economy generated jobs with the hope of instant riches in the form of stock options.
Page A10 New York SUBURBAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS APPEAL TO CITY PARENTS Confronted with fierce competition for Manhattan's top private schools and waiting lists at many public schools, some New York City parents are seeking out suburban schools that typically offer lower tuitions and easier admissions, as well as multiple playing fields.
But these days, Sun, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is confronted with more competition at the high end of the corporate computing market and an increasing willingness among corporate computing managers to build systems out of clusters of inexpensive computers running Linux.
Due to the comparatively high prices per trainkilometer, European railroad companies see themselves confronted with enormous competition from road transport.
Traditional pastoralists are confronted with increasing competition and possible loss of seasonal pastures as infrastructure such as roads, pipelines, power lines and dams, along with urban development and settlement, interferes with migrations (UNEP 2001; Vistnes et al. 2009; Nkedianye et al. 2011; Raziq et al. 2011).
This in turn has consequences for the healthcare insurance market since insurers are now confronted with intensified competition [ 3- 5].
The biopharmaceutical industry is a maturing industry, now confronted with increasing generic competition and greater regulatory expectations.
Factories are confronted with an immense stress of competition.
In an interdependent world confronted with serious ecological constraints, zero-sum competition to become the winningest fossil fuel "superpower" means, to borrow Garrett Hardin's famous phraseology, a catastrophic tragedy of the commons and the ruin of all.
"I always broke down in tears and anxiety if I was confronted with any food not on my fitness competition meal plan," she says.
In particular, caution is in order where aid is confronted with conflict or violence, the unwillingness of governments and/or vested interests and competition for scarce resources.
